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This month’s While Rome Burns has a dual purpose: First, we want to welcome and support the Interfaith Movement for Immigrant Justice, a wonderful group working on issues close to our hearts. Second, we want to pay our respects to one of Portland’s most unique and loving musicians. A year after his passing, Jaime Leopold’s…

Young folks raising a ruckus for young folks. This month While Rome Burns welcomes the amazing Central Catholic High School Jazz Band, The Brass Pack and Bird Bennett in support of one of Portland’s premier organizations supporting homeless youth, p:ear (project: education, art, recreation). p:ear builds positive relationships with homeless and transitional youth through education,…

This month While Rome Burns returns to a familiar issue: Immigration. As I write this the government is (partially) closed for business and there is “a humanitarian crisis” at our southern border (for once, the president is right). The good news is we’re not sitting on our hands. Not us, and not the Innovation Law…

Man, what a sweet show last Sunday night. We raised nearly $500 for the amazing folks at Red Lodge Transition Services. What an honor to work with such a fantastic group of folks. This is the second time we’ve featured the organization, and we always go home with a huge smile on our faces and…

Maybe, I dunno, humility? Think the last couple of years have been rough for diversity in America? How about the last couple of centuries? If you are descended from the indigenous inhabitants of this amazing country, your history of marginalization and resistance extends farther back than the latest insanity brought into sharp focus by the…

For Free! Yes, you heard us – FREE PIZZA! If you vote, that is. AND – dance ’til your feet decide to take a hike, to the music of The New Iberians and the Reverb Brothers! And help support this month’s fabulous organization, Rahab’s Sisters! How could you go wrong? Here’s the deal: While Rome Burns…

Hey Burners – we’re back from our August vacation, relaxed, refreshed, and ready to ROCK SOME RESISTANCE! We’ve got a great show lined up this month, starting with a great band: Brooks Hill (featuring Cindy Lou Banks) will be bringing their special brand of Country-oriented Americana. It’s a big-voiced, big-hearted music, deisgned to get your your…

After 17 straight months of While Rome Burns events – crazy, wonderful, inspiring, joyous While Rome Burns events – we felt that you, our die-hard WRB fans, might forgive us if we took just a wee bit of time off. So this month (August) there will be no WRB event. But not to worry! We…

Artist/activist group While Rome Burns is focusing on the issue of immigration at this month’s benefit. With back-to-back performances by two of Portland’s most dynamic blues/jazz/R&B/Americana luminaries, Karen Lovely and Tevis Hodge Jr., While Rome Burns hopes to raise both money and awareness for Causa, one of Oregon’s most committed Latino immigrant support organizations. Please…